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Alton man convicted in 2021 triple shooting

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - An Alton, Illinois, man faces a minimum 93-year prison sentence after being convicted last week for a 2021 triple shooting.The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 8, 2021, in the 700 block of Oakwood Estates in Alton. The three victims were rushed to a St. Louis hospital with serious injuries. One of the victims suffered a gunshot that nearly severed her leg, but doctors were able to reattach the appendage.Investigators determined the shooting was the result of a dispute between one of the victims and the shooter, later identified as Steven Foster. The person had made fun of the condition of a car belonging to Foster's friend. Top Stories: Officers injured in Maryland Heights crash Foster left the residence after the argument, but returned with a gun a short time later with and opened fire, police and prosecutors said.After a week-long trial, it took a Madison County jury just five hours of deliberation before coming back with a verdict. Foster was fo...

Colorado delays free preschool program matching date to April 26

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

It will be another month before Colorado families know where they can send their children for preschool under the state’s new universal preschool program.Families were supposed to learn which programs they had matched with on Thursday. But on Tuesday, officials with Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood announced they plan to tell families on April 26.As reported by Chalkbeat, more than 20 education and early childhood groups had asked the state to push back initial matches due to problems with the algorithm that meant some families might miss out on top choices and other families might be offered seats that didn’t meet their needs. They feared the program was being rushed, and families would end up frustrated.State officials held firm to the initial March 30 matching date until just two days prior. Denver Public Schools even sent an email to parents Tuesday afternoon telling families to watch their texts and emails for state notifications this Thursday.Related ArticlesEducation ...

Vacant DTC office building, formerly home to Comcast, hitting auction block

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

An office building in the Denver Tech Center that no one works from is hitting the auction block.The auction for the four-story, 164,000-square-foot Quebec Court II building at 5800 S. Quebec St. in Greenwood Village is scheduled to begin online May 1 and end two days later, according to auction website Ten-X.The structure was built in 1980 and renovated in 1998, according to the auction site. It sits on a 6.24-acre lot and is vacant.“Exceptional opportunity to acquire a valuable office asset with significant upside through aggressive leasing strategies,” the auction site says.The minimum bid is $4 million, according to Ten-X. CBRE is marketing the property.The property is owned by The GC Net Lease (GV Quebec Court) Investors LLC, which paid $27 million for it in January 2013, according to public records. California-based Griffin Capital said in a news release that month that its Griffin Capital Net Lease REIT Inc. had acquired the property.At the time of the purchase, Quebec Court ...

Land owner by Coors Field proposes temporary shipping container complex

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

The owner of a parking lot next to Coors Field says economic conditions have pushed back plans to build on it, so he hopes to use shipping containers to turn the lot into an “outdoor gathering space” for now.San Francisco-based Fillmore Capital Partners paid $4.4 million in 2019 for the 0.29-acre lot at 2000 Blake St., and last year successfully got the city to rezone the property to allow eight stories.But Fillmore CEO Ron Silva told BusinessDen Tuesday that plans to build on the lot have been paused.“Given where the Federal Reserve is, interest rates, the business environment – doing vertical development is simply not economically possible right now,” he said.In March 2022, Silva said he hoped to break ground on a mixed-use project at the site as early as this summer. But on Tuesday, he said that likely won’t happen for at least a few years.In the meantime, Silva wants to do more than just parking cars.“We’d really like to enhance the experience, eliminate the parking lot that ser...

Oilman Jack Grynberg “suffered from insane delusions” but his contract valid, judge rules

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

The late Denver wildcatter Jack Grynberg “suffered from insane delusions” in the waning years of his life, a Centennial judge says, but that doesn’t nullify a contract he signed.“A party can be insane for some purposes and still have the capacity to contract,” Arapahoe County District Court Judge Peter Michaelson determined this month.Grynberg, a self-described Holocaust survivor, built a fortune digging for oil and gas in far-flung places after graduating from the Colorado School of Mines in the early 1950s. He died at age 89 in 2021 after several years of cognitive decline, family feuds and constant litigation.In March 2022, Grynberg’s family sued several of his former lawyers, accusing them of making millions of dollars by hiding Grynberg’s deterioration and allowing him to file frivolous lawsuits against his wife and children, among others. The lawyers deny wrongdoing.For nearly one year after it was filed, that case was bogged down by a procedural matter — whether former Grynbe...

‘I’m not sorry’: Business lawyer suspended for forging letter to ex-wife

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

A former corporate lawyer in Denver who will soon be suspended from practicing law for 34 months said that he doesn’t regret forging a letter from federal immigration officials to prevent his estranged wife from leaving the country with their young son.Andrew Newell, who passed the bar in 1999 after graduating from law school at the University of Colorado, will lose his license April 24. He doesn’t expect to practice law again.“I’m guilty in the strictest legal sense but I certainly don’t feel guilty, let’s put it that way,” Newell said during a lengthy phone interview last week from Wyoming, where he now lives.“As a father, I did the right thing. As an attorney, there’s no excuse for breaking the rules and I knew that,” said Newell. He later added, “I did what I had to do.”Newell spent 20 years representing corporations as an in-house lawyer and later at Whitcomb Selinsky, a business law firm in south Denver. He lobbied governments and represented clients before the state’s Public ...

7 CHP officers, nurse charged in 2020 in-custody death of suspected DUI driver

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a registered nurse are being charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of an alleged DUI driver in Altadena nearly three years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.Officers Dionisio Fiorella, 39, Michael Little, 57, Dustin Osmanson, 41, Darren Parsons, 48, Diego Romero, 35, Justin Silva, 30, and Marciel Terry, 32, as well as RN Arbi Baghalian, 42, were also charged with one count of assault in the death of Edward Bronstein.On March 31, 2020, Osmanson and Terry pulled over Bronstein along the 5 Freeway in Burbank on suspicion of driving under the influence, prosecutors said.The officers took Bronstein, 38, to a CHP maintenance yard in Altadena and obtained a warrant to draw his blood.Bronstein at first refused to get his blood drawn, but eventually agreed to comply as officers “pushed him to the ground,” the DA’s Office alleges. Six officers then allegedly forced a handcuffed Bronstein and pin...

'Mushroom Mobile' touring L.A. streets, offering taste of fungus sweets

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

A confectionery company founded in Los Angeles wants you to give fungus a chance.Alice, a purveyor of "mushroom chocolate," will be touring the streets of L.A. next month in a vintage ice cream truck to give people a taste of its "decadent treats with functional mushroom chocolates" which it says encourages focus and calm.Alice is based in Venice and sells a variety of mushroom-infused chocolates that it says can provide long-term benefits and instant effects. The chocolates are combined with organic "fruiting body mushrooms" and herbal supplements that the company claims are both healthy and a good daily routine that "only gets better with time."The company will be taking its product on the road in April and is inviting skeptics and curious people to experience the treats and learn about fungi of all types. California hoping to designate fungus as state’s official mushroom "Visiting friends can select indulgent treats like Brainstorm-dipped bananas for improved focus, ice cr...

Egg producer reports 718% increase in profit

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

You already know that egg prices are at crazy-high levels because of bird flu, which caused millions of hens to be put down.But that won't leave you feeling over easy when I share that the country's top egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods, just reported a massive increase in quarterly profit.How massive? Try 718% higher.What does that mean in dollar terms? A year ago, Cal-Maine pocketed $39.5 million in quarterly profit. This time around, $323 million.Sherman Miller, the company's president and CEO, called the latest returns "a solid performance," which deserves some sort of prize for understatement."Our results are reflective of a dynamic market environment with higher average selling prices and favorable demand," he said in a statement.If you're feeling like this is a rerun of the record profits oil companies reported amid high gas prices, you're right.And this is why some call for windfall profits taxes during such unusual external forces.These are examples of companies riding market t...

IHOP bringing back popular food item during menu revamp

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:32:47 GMT

IHOP on Wednesday announced it will roll out a revamped menu that includes more than a dozen new food and drink items, plus the return of a fan-favorite food offering on April 3. The breakfast company’s latest menu overhaul is its biggest to date, according to a news release.In 2020, IHOP simplified its menu by discontinuing multiple food items. Since then, it has brought back or introduced new dishes, like burritos and bowls, in 2021, but the menu has yet to reach its pre-pandemic size.The new menu will be available at participating restaurants nationwide and includes new food items for breakfast, lunch, dinner and more.IHOP on Wednesday introduced a revamped menu that includes more than a dozen new food and drink items, plus the return of a fan-favorite food offering. (IHOP) The new menu will include eggs benedict, Sweet and Savory crepes, an updated lineup of Ultimate Steakburgers, fish and shrimp, fresh salads and new beverages like mango iced tea and Strawberry Lemonade Splashe...